Dr. Kristopher J. Blom
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The Perfect Coffee Ritual: How to Use Caffeine to Enhance Your Public Speaking Skills
Coffee and public speaking don’t mix, or do they? Caffeine can make speaking much more stressful, but can also help make training more realistic.
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Flipped Camera Tip
A different camera tip, that you’ll actually use! The flipped camera will help you understand how fear is ruling your perception and how to overcome it.
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Why Learn Public Speaking – Career Edition
Why put yourself through the pain of learning to Public Speak? You stand to gain a lot in areas surrounding career. Don’t do it and you have a lot to loss. Learn just how much.
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Corporate Cost of Poor Public Speaking
Poor public speaking in the corporate world is common and costly. Stats collected from various surveys and a calculator for cost of lost productivity (Spoiler: it’s a lot!).
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Idea of the Year Competition
Virtual Orator participated in the 2017 Czech ‘Idea of the Year’ (Napad Roku). We placed 10th and were the only non-Czech speaking idea to place! Find out a bit about our participation.
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Don’t Get Caught with Your Slides Down
Even perfect slides are no use when tech fails. Save embarrassment; Save the sale; Save the day. Create a sure-fire backup just in case using this method.
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Practice Being Uncomfortable
Embarrassment and social discomfort happen in public speaking. Get comfortable being uncomfortable with these different ways to train.
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Comfortable being Uncomfortable
Randomly give your presentation in a coffee shop as preparation? Extreme, but a sound principle. Get comfortable being uncomfortable to improve your public speaking.
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Distraction Reaction – without Tripping Up
What’s the easiest way to identify an inexperienced public speaker? fear reaction to distractions. Inexperienced speakers tend to get tripped up by minor distractions. Being aware and prepared to handle distractions can help.
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Affiliated Trainer Program Announcement
Announcing our new Affiliated Trainer status program. Designed to deepen our relationship with training companies and independent trainers and bring the benefits of Virtual Orator to more people.